Opinion: Day in the Life of a North Korean

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... I ... what sets were awarded in a number of categories yesterday ... on mom than fiction ... and we are absolutely delighted to have Wall Street Journal fiction Chronicle columnist ... Sensex here to talk about the winner in the fiction category two is ... Adam Johnson who wrote the orphan master sound ... that is second in North Korea ... why is this book important What's Express ... well the premise is that in its simplicity fallen is an average North Korean citizen named Pachter and of ... we were told that his name is Paris Django isn't ... that clever way of stress and has every man status ... that said a simple is that ... it's in fact there's nothing simple better all that follows this normal North Korea's innocent ... through the military engine to lugs ... and into the highest ranks of North Korean government ... so you can sort of an amalgam ... of to still be in political novels like Orwell's nineteen eighty four as the rank was Orwell's nineteen before in your in your opinion I think it does in fact ... it's different in wages or Wells is very much a political satire political stoking novel ... this on the fact ... is a page Turner ... has also a real adventure into it ... there's an element ... of ... them ... to cinematic flair ... that mixes with this that's higher ... than at the same time its satirical ... but there's also a sense that it's a very real because North Korea ... what's going on North Korea ... is present in is very contemporary it's a very very timely award we've got ... about a minute left Sam my ... business is still a practical question ... how in the world did this author ... gather some the deatails about a country that Snyder largely close to the outside world will he said in interviews to read some books there some histories from people who defected from North Korea Korean Idol thoughts of eyewitness but he also took this trip to North Korea there is a very stage managed ... state sponsored trips that he went on ... that he got some idea of what the country was like ... he said that he considers see through the stage managing ... to see his way through ... beyond that it's just imagination it's just him trying to think ... you know just in making things that ... does not not not many places in a world ... where we don't really know what is the world is lying ... this is one of the minutes hours are really a great place ... for matching to fit ... in the fiction imagine if a she and Anna fantastic read Wall Street Journal fiction Chronicle